Question regarding OVH spam filtering and providers that use them.

[KuJoe]

I used a tutorial I found online but it was a little old so I had to make a few changes to it. I don't even know if it works or not though since I haven't activated any accounts yet.

 

[CentralHosts]

I would not recommend using OVHs spam filtering as if you have a false positive or need changes adjusted it will take awhile for them to have this accomplished for you. I would suggest looking at Office365 for email hosting. 

 

[KuJoe]

I would not recommend using OVHs spam filtering as if you have a false positive or need changes adjusted it will take awhile for them to have this accomplished for you. I would suggest looking at Office365 for email hosting.

Does Office365 offer extremely cheap remote SMTP services for outbound e-mail only? I can't find it.

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

Office365 is a *nightmare*.  We're stuck using it at Coke... and I don't know what kind of fustercluck setup they have going on upstream, but I always end up having to use one of my personal IMAPs if I want to actually send mail to someone not on Coke's 365 group (IT claims they're not blocking anything, and they're just as baffled).

 

[KuJoe]

Don't worry Ald, I have no intention of using it even if they did have what I was looking for which I doubt they do. My current setup is 100x better for my needs than a hosted solution could ever be.

 

[datarealm]

have you ever tried mailcleaner?
we installed it once at a small provider who had a barracuda that bit the dust and thought it was fantastic.  would be curious how you thought it compared to ASSP.

 

[KuJoe]

MailCleaner is not even remotely in my price range. They want $8.50 per mailbox, ASSP is free as is the server it's on.

 

[datarealm]

They have an open source edition: http://www.mailcleaner.org/

Though it appears it hasn't been updated for 2 years, which is almost exactly as long as its been since i've looked into it.  (Did a fabulous job at the time though as a total drop in replacement for the barracuda that dropped dead)

 

[KuJoe]

In that case it might be worth looking into if ASSP doesn't pan out. I really should start accepting clients so I can test it out.

 

[splitice]

Testing on clients? Eeek. I hope it works, and then I hope for a tutorial.

Ive done a bit of looking into outgoing SMTP filtering, didn't really find anything which I considered production worthy on it (with the restriction of open source / free and running on Linux). I did find spamd for OpenBSD but I haven't done anything on OpenBSD to date, and I dont really want to learn it just for spam filtering.

 

[KuJoe]

Testing on clients? Eeek. I hope it works, and then I hope for a tutorial.

I can't test it myself so I need spammers to test it and free web hosting attracts a lot of them.